Six-foot mammoth tusk found in Essex at extreme low tide

A mammoth tusk more than 6ft long has been found at low tide off Mersea Island, near Coopers Beach. The find was revealed by citizan.org.uk on their twitter account this morning, with a tweet: “What’s, this old thing? Just found it lying around.”

The group – Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network (Citizan) – was able to explore more than 1km off shore because of a unique low tide this morning. Citizan had been promoting its expedition on Twitter the day before under the hash tag #alltimelow

The low water revealed a rarely seen a spit of gravel on clay bedrock. The tusk was inside a ‘loose sand filled’ area, according to, @CITiZAN1